The End of the End of the Earth

The End of the End of the Earth
Jonathan Franzen

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we’ve come to expect from Franzen.Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. The End of the End of the Earth is remarkable, provocative and necessary.

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For their help with these essays, the author thanks Will Akers,

Ernesto Barbieri, Henry Finder, Adrian Forsyth, Susan Golomb,

Pilar Guzmán, Casey Lott, Etleva Pushi, Jamie Shreeve, and Nell Zink.

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Source ISBN: 9780008299224

Ebook Edition © November 2018 ISBN: 9780008299248

Version: 2018-10-03

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To Kathy, again,

and in memory of Martin Schneider-Jacoby

and Mindy Baha El Din

Contents

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Copyright

Dedication

THE ESSAY IN DARK TIMES

MANHATTAN 1981

WHY BIRDS MATTER

SAVE WHAT YOU LOVE

CAPITALISM IN HYPERDRIVE

MAY YOUR LIFE BE RUINED

A FRIENDSHIP

A ROOTING INTEREST

TEN RULES FOR THE NOVELIST

MISSING

THE REGULARS

INVISIBLE LOSSES

9/13/01

POSTCARDS FROM EAST AFRICA

THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH

XING PED

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